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根据欧洲癌症研究与治疗组织(EORTC)乳腺癌和放射治疗小组进行的一项研究,对早期乳腺癌患者进行额外剂量的放射治疗可大大降低局部复发的风险。 该研究结果将于今天在伊斯坦布尔举行的欧洲治疗放射学和肿瘤学会会议上公布。

为了确定这种加强剂量是否会帮助接受过乳房保留手术的女性,研究人员研究了 5,569 名患者,其中 95.5% 的患者已完全切除肿瘤。所有患者都接受了全乳房放射治疗,然后随机选择接受局部加强剂量或不接受进一步的放射治疗。几年后,对照组中有 182 名患者出现癌症复发,而加强剂量组中只有 109 名患者遭受挫折——迄今为止,风险降低了近 50%。40 岁以下的女性获益最大,她们的复发几率降低了 54%。

研究人员将在未来几年继续监测患者,以观察加强剂量是否能降低死亡率。与此同时,首席试验协调员哈里·巴特林克断言,研究结果应立即改变临床实践。他说:“这些令人印象深刻的结果意味着,加强剂量现在应被视为早期乳腺癌的标准治疗方法,尤其是在年轻女性中。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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